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East Africa is a region that has seen significant human trafficking activity, particularly in the trafficking of women and children for sex and labor exploitation. Many trafficking victims in the region are from rural areas and are lured into exploitation with promises of employment or education opportunities. Trafficking networks in the region are often highly organized and can involve multiple countries, making it difficult to investigate and prosecute traffickers. Organizations such as the United Nations and the African Union have implemented policies and initiatives to combat trafficking in the region, including providing funding for victim support services and implementing measures to prevent trafficking.
On 23 May, Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) issued an arrest warrant for Wycliffe Onguti Magara. Magara had been identified as the head of a local human trafficking network that recruits East Africans online with the promise of job opportunities in Southeast Asia. But once they arrive, victims are forced to work for cybercrime…
After that, rape became a regular part of her life. But landlords and employers don’t see the years Holmes spent as a human trafficking victim. They just see the litany of charges — including identity theft and drug possession — that came about as a …
Chinese threat actors breached Japan’s cybersecurity agency Earlier this month, Japan’s National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy, or NISC, disclosed a data breach exposed emails to a third-party. The Financial Times’ sources say the Japanese government believes China’s People’s Liberation Army orchestrated the attack. It’s believed the hack took place in October 2022, but…
More than 200,000 people are being forced to carry out cyber scams in Southeast Asia, the United Nations estimates. A report published Tuesday by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights documents the monumental scale of trafficking into an illicit industry that took off following the pandemic and shows no sign of slowing…
The US Department of State (DOS) has described the trafficking of humans through casinos across Asia as a growing concern, with the practice particularly prevalent in Special Economic Zones and border towns such as Sihanoukville in Cambodia and the infamous “Golden Triangle”. The issue was outlined in the department’s 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report,…
SINGAPORE: For the past several years, INTERPOL has been closely observing a growing crime phenomenon: large-scale human trafficking where victims are lured through fake job ads to online scam centres and forced to commit cyber-enabled financial crime on an industrial scale. The crime trend, which has seen tens of thousands trafficked in Southeast Asia and…
Imagine a seven-year-old girl, spending her days not in school, but cooking and cleaning for a family in a wealthy suburb. Or a young mother struggling to make ends meet, lured away from her children by an employment agency and forced into sex work abroad. For millions of people, this is a reality. Human trafficking…
Los Angeles, CA – White Dove, the anonymous singer and songwriter, has always known that music is a powerful language we can all learn to speak and bridge cultural differences. White Dove first used her gift of song in 2009, when she was on a medical rescue mission in East Africa. A violent grenade attack…
That’s now changing. In recent years, we have seen high profile examples of people with lived experience being treated as the experts they are. The United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, formed in 2016, “provides a formal platform for trafficking survivors to advise and make recommendations on federal anti-trafficking policies”. Sophie Otiende, a survivor…
By MOHAMMED MOMOH Nigeria police thought they had wiped out the baby factory menace. That was until a 17-year-old was caught in homestead where he was ‘assigned’ to impregnate ten young women in Nigeria’s Rivers State. The boy was just a stud or a “breeder”. The crackdown in Obio/Akpor last month also saw two women…
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